{"id":10474,"date":"2024-08-21T22:35:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=10474"},"modified":"2024-08-21T22:35:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:35:59","slug":"how-much-added-sugar-is-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=10474","title":{"rendered":"How Much Added Sugar Is Okay?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Public health authorities continue to lower the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake.<\/p>\n<p>Dating back to the original \u201cDietary Goals for the United States\u201d in 1977, also known as the so-called McGovern Report, leading nutrition scientists didn\u2019t only <a href=\"https:\/\/thescienceofnutrition.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/dietary-goals-for-the-united-states.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">call<\/a> for a reduction in meat and other sources of saturated fat and cholesterol, such as dairy and eggs, but also sugar. The goal was to reduce America\u2019s sugar intake to no more than 10 percent of our daily diet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conclusions would <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.app.box.com\/s\/4xydsp4czfqxrxzy98x0c1glwvsu7ttg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hang<\/a> sugar,\u201d reported the president of the Sugar Association. \u201cThe McGovern Report has to be neutralized.\u201d The National Cattlemen\u2019s Association was on its side and, just like Big Sugar, appealed to the Senate Select Committee to withdraw the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sugar Industry Empire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodpolitics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ch-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strikes<\/a> Back\u201d\u2014and it appeared to work. When the official U.S. Dietary Guidelines were released in 1980 and again in 1985, it was without a specific limit, like 10 percent. It \u201csaid, simply, and in just four words, \u2018Avoid too much sugar.\u2019\u201d (Whatever that means.) \u201cIn 1990, it went to five words, \u2018Use sugars only in moderation,\u2019 and in 1995 to six: \u2018Choose a diet moderate in sugars.\u2019\u201d In 2000, it at least went back to limiting intake\u2014specifically, \u201c\u2018Choose beverages and foods to limit your intake of sugars\u2019 (ten words), but even that was too strong. Under pressure from sugar lobbyists, the government agencies substituted the word \u2018moderate\u2019 for \u2018limit\u2019 so it read \u2018Choose beverages and foods to moderate your intake of sugars.\u2019\u201d Then, the 2005 guidelines committee dropped the s-word completely, encouraging Americans to \u201cChoose carbohydrates wisely\u2026\u201d Again, what does that mean? If only there were a dietary guidelines committee that could guide us\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Sugar Association <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.app.box.com\/s\/35h2vtyrzwazswicjjb6gwsn0qc3pdl9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed<\/a> optimism about that 2005 Committee. In its Sugar E-News, it wrote that Sugar Association Incorporated (SAI) \u201cis committed to the protection and promotion of sucrose [table sugar] consumption. Any disparagement of sugar will be met with forceful, strategic public comments\u201d\u2014and it wasn\u2019t kidding. \u201cIn 2003, [the World Health Organization] WHO <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/27516634\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a> a joint report with the Food and Agriculture Organization entitled <em>Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases<\/em> which, for the first time [since the McGovern Report], called for a reduction in sugar intake to under 10% of total dietary energy [caloric] consumption.\u201d The Sugar Association responded by threatening to get the United States to withdraw all funding from the WHO. You can see it yourself in black and white at 2:22 in my video<a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/friday-favorites-the-recommended-daily-added-sugar-intake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> Friday Favorites: The Recommended Daily Added Sugar Intake<\/strong><\/a>. The Sugar Association <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/458188-sugar-association-letter-to-who-april-2003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threatened<\/a> to pressure Congress to withdraw funding from the World Health Organization\u2014polio vaccinations and AIDS medications be damned! Don\u2019t mess with the candy man. The threat was <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/14758862\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> as \u201ctantamount to blackmail and worse than any pressure exerted by the tobacco lobby.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107886\" src=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-22.png 1920w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-22-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-22-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-22-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-22-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-22-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-22-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-22-720x405.png 720w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-22-540x304.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fifteen years later and 40 years after the first proposed McGovern Report, the 2015 to 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/health.gov\/our-work\/nutrition-physical-activity\/dietary-guidelines\/previous-dietary-guidelines\/2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lays<\/a> out the 10 percent limit as a key recommendation: \u201cConsume less than 10 percent of calories per day from added sugars.\u201d This is currently exceeded by every age bracket in the United States starting at age one, as you can see in the graph below and at 2:58 in my <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/friday-favorites-the-recommended-daily-added-sugar-intake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a><\/strong>, with adolescents <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25703323\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">averaging<\/a> 87 grams of sugar a day. That means the average teen is effectively eating 29 sugar packets a day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107888\" src=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-58.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-58.png 1920w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-58-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-58-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-58-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-58-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-58-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-58-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-58-720x405.png 720w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-58-540x304.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Sugar Association <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170504162332\/http:\/www.sugar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/7-31-14-NFP-Comments-re-Sugar-Association-Docket-No-FDA-2012-N-12102.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">describes<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> the 10 percent limit as \u201cextremely low.\u201d Well, I mean, it <em>is<\/em> only up to about a dozen spoonsful a day. Of course, there <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25791502\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> no dietary requirement for added sugar at all, and every single calorie we get from added sugar is a wasted opportunity to get calories from sources that provide nutrition. To the American Heart Association\u2019s credit, it went further by trying to <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/19704096\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> added sugar intake down to about 6 percent of calories, for which a single can of soda could send you over the limit. That\u2019s an added sugar limit <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/27974597\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exceeded<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> by 90 percent of Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the American Heart Association (AHA) <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/27550974\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a> its guidelines for children, recommending they get no more than about six teaspoons per day. In that case, a single serving of nearly a hundred cereals on the U.S. market would <a href=\"https:\/\/static.ewg.org\/reports\/2014\/cereals\/pdf\/2014-EWG-Cereals-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exceed<\/a> the entire recommended daily limit. The AHA <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/27550974\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommends<\/a> no added sugars at all for children under the age of two, a recommendation that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/21092767\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">violated<\/a> in up to 80 percent of toddlers, as you can see below and at 4:20 in my <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/friday-favorites-the-recommended-daily-added-sugar-intake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107890\" src=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-20.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-20.png 1920w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-20-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-20-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-20-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-20-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-20-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-20-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-20-720x405.png 720w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-20-540x304.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the United States, \u201cat least 65 countries have <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/27974597\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">implemented<\/a> dietary guidelines or public health policies to curb sugar consumption to encourage maintenance of healthy body weight.\u201d In the United Kingdom, the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/27916004\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made<\/a> new recommendations to reduce added sugars down to 5 percent, which is also the direction the World Health Organization is <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25905159\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headed<\/a>. The WHO always seems to be ahead of the curve. Why? Because its policy-making process is at least partially <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/27516634\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protected<\/a> \u201cagainst industry influence.\u201d Unlike governments, which may have competing interests in commerce and trade, \u201cWHO is exclusively concerned with health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I spoke at a hearing of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Committee. Watch the highlights and my speech here: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/highlights-from-the-2020-dietary-guidelines-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Highlights from the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Hearing<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The sugar industry keeps pretty busy, as you\u2019ll see from my recent videos, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/friday-favorites-are-fortified-kids-breakfast-cereals-healthy-or-just-candy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday Favorites: Are Fortified Kids\u2019 Breakfast Cereals Healthy or Just Candy?<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/flashback-friday-sugar-industry-attempt-to-manipulate-the-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Flashback Friday: Sugar Industry Attempts to Manipulate the Science<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check the related posts below for my other popular videos and blogs on sugar.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"\/>  <\/div>\n<p><script>\n            !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n            {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n                n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n            if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n            n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n            t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n            s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n                'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('init', '1582627921973608');\n            fbq('track', 'PageView');\n        <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1675549\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public health authorities continue to lower the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake. 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